Engineering Manager (IoT)

Location: Auckland, New Zealand; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops hardware, software, and AI systems that help farmers and graziers operate more productive and sustainable farms through connected livestock management.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a wireless network engineering team through mentoring, feedback, performance conversations, hiring, and career development.
• Own the architecture, reliability, scalability, and delivery of collar-to-tower-to-cloud connectivity across LoRa, cellular, and satellite direct-to-device networks.
• Plan coverage and tower deployments using RF engineering, site selection, link budgets, path loss modelling, antenna selection, and spectrum strategy.
• Run remote tower infrastructure through zero-touch provisioning, configuration automation, diagnostics, and fleet tooling.
• Own network uptime, incident response, and sustainable on-call practices for a 24/7 physical network.
• Collaborate with firmware, backend, hardware, and field operations teams, develop farm-domain knowledge, and identify opportunities to use AI tools in engineering.

Requirements

• Direct experience leading engineers, including mentoring, hiring, and performance management.
• Strong wireless networking fundamentals, including spectrum allocation, path loss, link budgets, and antenna behaviour.
• Hands-on experience deploying LoRa, LoRaWAN, cellular, or other long-range wireless technologies at scale.
• Experience with platform infrastructure, configuration management such as Ansible, fleet automation, and reliable operation of thousands of remote devices.
• Ability to work in Go, Python, or C++ sufficiently to review tooling, investigate data, and maintain strong technical judgement.
• Experience working in fast-moving startups and ambiguous problem spaces, with a calm, low-ego approach to complex incidents and delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with satellite direct-to-device or NTN technologies.
• Experience with spectrum regulatory work involving FCC, ACMA, ComReg, or similar authorities.
• Embedded systems or firmware experience.
• Experience building or operating infrastructure in harsh, remote environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first culture with in-person work as the default and flexibility based on trust.
• Health insurance through Southern Cross Health Insurance.
• Six months of fully paid primary caregiver leave and four weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave.
• $1,000 annual self-development budget, wellness leave, and unlimited paid annual leave.
• Remuneration package including salary, benefits, and an employee stock ownership plan.
• Inclusive environment focused on meaningful work, autonomy, learning, and solving complex problems.

Hiring process

• Submit a cover letter explaining interest in the role and hirify.global, together with a CV.
• The hiring team will follow up with shortlisted candidates.